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TENTH  ANNUAL 
CONFERENCE 


of  the 


American  Baptist  Foreign 
Mission  Society  with  Newly 
Appointed  Missionaries 


JUNE  NINETEEN— TWENTY-FIVE,  1913 


FORD  BUILDING,  BOSTON 


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Program 

Thursday,  June  19 

THE  MISSIONARY  AND  THE  BOARD 

10.30  Devotional  Service,  Emory  W.  Hunt,  D.  D.,  General  Secretary 
11.00  Introductions 

11.15  Business  Session  of  the  Board.  All  missionaries  are  expected  to  be  present 

Friday,  June  20 

THE  MISSIONARY  AND  THE  BOARD  (Continued) 

9.30  Devotional  Service,  Rev.  P.  H.  J.  Lerrigo,  M.  D,  Capiz,  P.  I. 

10.00  The  Foreign  Department 
The  Woman’s  Societies 
Relations  with  the  Treasurer 
2.00  Conference  Photograph 

Saturday,  June  21 

THE  MISSIONARY  AND  THE  HOME  CHURCHES 

9.30  Devotional  Service,  Rev.  Joseph  Taylor,  Chengtu,  West  China 
10.00  The  Home  Department 

Cultivating  a  Constituency —  Specific  Gifts  and  the  Station  Plan 

The  Missionary  as  a  Writer 

The  Missionary  Preparing  for  Furlough 

Sunday,  June  22 

MESSAGES  BY  THE  MISSIONARIES 

Addresses  by  the  missionaries  in  the  churches 

Monday,  June  23 

PERSONAL  RELATIONS  OF  THE  MISSIONARY 

9.30  Devotional  Service,  James  H.  Franklin,  D.  D.,  Foreign  Secretary 
10.00  Personal  Questions 

Relations  to  Europeans  and  the  Government 
Relations  to  Fellow  Missionaries 
Relations  to  the  People  and  their  Religion 
2.00  Separate  Sessions  for  Men  and  Women  Missionaries 

Tuesday,  June  24 

THE  MISSIONARY  AND  HIS  WORK 

9.30  Devotional  Service,  Rev.  J.  H.  Deming,  Shanghai,  East  China 
10.00  Language  Study 

The  Society’s  Policy 
Forms  of  Work 
Cooperation 

4.00  Reception  by  Boston  Baptist  Social  Union  and  Woman’s  Baptist  Social  Union  in 
Ford  Hall.  All  missionaries  are  expected  to  be  present 

Wednesday,  June  25 

THE  MISSIONARY  FITTING  FOR  WORK 

9.30  Devotional  Service,  Fred  P.  Haggard,  D.  D.,  Home  Secretary 

10.00  The  Intellectual  Life  of  the  Missionary.  Prof.  R.  M.  Vaughan,  Newton 
Cultivating  the  Spiritual  Life.  M.  C.  Mason,  D.  D. 

A  Task  Worth  While.  President  W.  H.  P.  Faunce,  Brown  University 

2.30  Public  Service  for  Women  Missionaries  in  Ford  Hall,  under  the  direction  of  the 

Woman’s  Baptist  Foreign  Missionary  Societies 

7.30  Public  Service  for  All  Missionaries  in  Ford  Hall 


Missionaries  Sailing  During  1913 

Includes  all  who  have  sailed  since  January  1,  1913,  or  those  who  are  expected  to  sail 
before  December  31. 

RETURNING 

BURMA 

Hartford,  Miss  S.  S.,  Illinois  Seagrave,  Mrs.  A.  E.,  New  York 

Kirkpatrick,  M.  B.,  M.  D.,  and  Mrs.  Kirkpatrick,  Slater,  Miss  S.  R.,  Pennsylvania 

Illinois  Vinton,  S.  R.,  and  Mrs.  Vinton,  Massachusetts 

McGuire,  Mrs.  John,  Indiana 

ASSAM 

Boggs,  S.  A.  D.,  Nebraska,  and  Mrs.  Boggs,  New 
York 

SOUTH  INDIA 

Bawden,  S.  D.,  and  Mrs.  Bawden,  New  York  Newcomb,  John,  and  Mrs.  Newcomb,  Indiana 

BENGAL-ORISSA 

Bacheler,  Miss  M.  W.,  M.  D.,  New  Hampshire  Oxrieder,  J.  H.,  and  Mrs.  Oxrieder,  Minnesota 

SOUTH  CHINA 

Adams,  A.  S.,  Pennsylvania,  and  Mrs.  Adams,  Groesbeck,  A.  F.,  and  Mrs.  Groesbeck,  Iowa 
England  Traver,  Miss  E.  G„  Washington 

Capen,  R.  T.,  Massachusetts,  and  Mrs.  Capen,  Waters,  Mrs.  G.  H.,  Ohio 
Indiana 

EAST  CHINA 

Mackenzie,  C.  F.,  M.D.,  and  Mrs.  Mackenzie,  Proctor,  Mrs.  J.  T.,  Missouri 

Tennessee  Latimer,  J.  V.,  and  Mrs.  Latimer,  Iowa 

WEST  CHINA 

Bassett,  Miss  B.  E.,  Illinois  Davies,  J  P.,  and  Mrs.  Davies,  Ohio 

Clark,  I.  B.,  and  Mrs.  Clark,  New  York  Taylor,  Joseph,  New  York,  and  Mrs.  Taylor, 

Wisconsin 

CENTRAL  CHINA 

Huntley,  G.  A.,  M.  D.  and  Mrs.  Huntley,  Ver-  Roeder,  Miss  W.  W.,  Massachusetts 
mont 

JAPAN 

Ryder,  Miss  G.  E.,  Massachusetts 

CONGO 

Mabie,  Miss  C.  L.,  M.  D.,  Illinois 

PHILIPPINE  ISLANDS 

Johnson,  Miss  A.  V.,  Illinois  Thomas,  R.  C.,  M.D.,  Massachusetts,  and  Mrs. 

Munger,  H.  W.,  Pennsylvania  Thomas,  Michigan 


NEWLY  APPOINTED 


BURMA 

Case,  B.  C.,  Massachusetts  Singiser,  F.  K.,  and  Mrs.  Singiser,  Pennsylvania 

Currier,  R.  P.,  and  Miss  Edith  A.  Gould,  Massa¬ 
chusetts 

ASSAM 

Fowle,  W.  H.,  and  Mrs.  Fowle,  Ohio 

SOUTH  INDIA 

Hollis,  Miss  E.  E.,  Massachusetts  Wathne,  Thorleif,  and  Mrs.  Wathne,  Illinois 

SOUTH  CHINA 

Hildreth,  E.  S.,  and  Mrs.  Hildreth  ,  Massachu-  Northcott,  Miss  Fannie,,  Ohio 
setts  Scott,  Miss  M.  S.,  M.D.,  Illinois 

Newman,  H.  W.,  M.  D.,  New  York 

EAST  CHINA 

Kulp,  D.  H.,  II.,  and  Mrs.  Kulp,  Pennsylvania  Sparey,  Miss  E.  R.,  New  York 
Leach,  C.  D.,  M.  D.,  New  York,  and  Miss  Helen 
E.  Tyzzer,  Massachusetts 


CENTRAL  CHINA 

Davitt,  G.  Glass,  M.D.,  and  Mrs.  Davitt,  Penn¬ 
sylvania 

CHINA  — UNDESIGNATED 

Wilcox,  F.  C.,  and  Mrs.  Wilcox,  Michigan 


Crosby,  Miss  A.  R.  Massachusetts 


JAPAN 

CONGO 


Gilbert,  H.  F.,  and  Mrs.  Gilbert,  Illinois  Marsh,  A.  V.,  Illinois 

King,  J.  C.,  M.D.,  Massachusetts,  and  Miss  Cora 
E.  Wolff,  Michigan 

PHILIPPINE  ISLANDS 

Benedict,  Miss  C.  G.,  New  Jersey  Mather,  A.  K„  and  Mrs.  Mather,  Illinois 

Johnson,  Miss  Olivia  Thomas,  Miss  M.  J.,  New  York 

Lagergren,  Miss  Selma,  Illinois 


Special  Notices 

The  regular  meetings  of  the  Conference  will  be  held  in  the  Board  Room, 
eighth  floor,  Ford  Building.  They  are  not  open  to  the  general  public.  Written 
questions  on  topics  not  on  the  program  may  be  handed  to  the  presiding  officer 
at  any  session  for  answer  the  following  day. 

The  Secretaries  and  Treasurer  will  be  in  their  offices  each  day.  Definite 
appointments  should  be  made  if  interviews  are  desired. 

Inquiries  regarding  shipment  of  goods  should  be  made  at  the  Treasurer’s 
office. 

Those  desiring  to  make  purchases  in  Boston  may  secure  from  Mr.  Barnes, 
Vice-Treasurer,  a  card  which  will  entitle  them  to  special  discount. 

Each  missionary  should  leave  with  the  Treasurer  instructions  regarding 
insurance,  payment  of  subscriptions  to  periodicals,  and  other  items  of  personal 
business  to  which  attention  should  be  given  during  absence  from  the  United 
States. 

Each  missionary  should  leave  at  the  File  Room  the  following:  1.  Names 
and  addresses  of  relatives  and  friends  to  whom  special  communications  may 
be  sent  as  occasion  may  arise.  2.  A  portrait. 

A  group  photograph  of  all  the  newly  appointed  missionaries  will  be  taken 
at  Chickering’s,  21  West  Street,  Friday  afternoon,  June  20,  at  2  o’clock.  The 
size  will  be  eleven  by  fourteen  inches,  and  orders  for  the  same,  at  $1.00  each, 
may  be  left  with  the  Literature  Department,  Room  800. 

All  the  missionaries,  both  newly  appointed  and  returning,  are  expected  to 
be  present  at  the  evening  farewell  service.  It  is  desired  that  the  wives  of  all 
our  missionaries,  as  well  as  the  appointees  of  the  Woman’s  Societies,  shall 
attend  and  participate  in  the  afternoon  meeting  held  the  same  day. 

The  offices  of  the  Woman’s  Baptist  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  the  Bap¬ 
tist  Forward  Movement  for  Missionary  Education,  the  New  England  Baptist 
Library  and  Missions  are  on  the  seventh  floor  of  the  Ford  Building. 

The  office  of  the  New  England  District  Secretary  of  the  American  Baptist 
Foreign  Mission  Society,  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  and  Ameri¬ 
can  Baptist  Publication  Society  are  in  Room  615,  on  the  sixth  floor  of  the 
Ford  Building. 

The  Boston  Branch  salesroom  of  the  American  Baptist  Publication  Soci¬ 
ety  is  located  at  16  Ashburton  Place,  directly  opposite  the  entrance  to  the 
Ford  Building. 

On  the  fifth  floor  of  Tremont  Temple  may  be  found  the  rooms  of  the 
Massachusetts  Baptist  Missionary  Society  and  the  editorial  rooms  of  The 
Watchman. 

The  Ford  Building  is  the  home  of  the  Boston  Baptist  Social  Union,  and 
was  built  by  funds  left  by  the  late  Daniel  S.  Ford.  All  parts  of  the  building 
may  be  inspected,  if  desired.  A  fine  view  may  be  had  from  the  roof. 


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